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Essays in Development and Political Economics: Infrastructure, the Political Resource Curse, and Technology Spillovers
Get PDFReplication data for: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence
No full textFetzer, T., and Kyburz, S. (2024). “Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 106:1, 133–150
8 Principles of Direct Democracy
No full textWe propose eight principles of direct democracy that shall provide guidance on the basic premises to be considered when direct democratic decision-making institutions are constituted. While institutional setups vary immensely across countries, there may exist a number of fundamental propositions that are widely applicable; propositions that make the use of direct democracy less controversial, less risky, more cohesive, and, not least, more democratic
Does Proximity to Foreign Invested Firms Stimulate Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms? Firm-level Evidence from Vietnam
Get PDFInward foreign direct investment (FDI) is regarded as a key engine of industrial
growth and technological progress, especially in emerging markets. Regarding the relevance of geographic proximity between foreign and domestic firms for FDI spillover effects, there is yet little clear evidence, owing to a lack of precise location specific firm-level data. This paper presents the so far spatially most detailed Analysis of FDI spillover effects by geo-referencing the census of Vietnamese enterprises for the period 2005 to 2010, allowing us to measure the changing presence of foreign invested firms around each domestic firm. We apply a first-differenced two-stageleast-squares estimator to identify spillover effects from proximate FDI exposure on TFP growth of domestic manufacturing firms. We find positive and significant within-industry (horizontal) spillover effects within radii of 2 to 10 km, that decay beyond. Importantly, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs) gain from foreign firms in their vicinity. Furthermore, vertical spillovers through forward and backward linkages to other manufacturing firms are localized, while vertical spillovers from foreign firms in the service sector are less geographically restricted
Fast Track to Growth? The Impact of Railway Access on Regional Economic Development in 19th Century Switzerland
Get PDFWe study the effect of railway access on regional development in 19th century Switzerland. The identification strategy in our analysis of geo-referenced railway network information, population growth rates, sectoral work shares and body height, relies on panel data techniques and an inconsequential units IV approach. Gaining railway access increased annual population growth by 0.4 percentage points compared to unconnected municipalities, mainly via the local migration balance. Railway improvements also promoted structural shifts from the primary to the secondary/tertiary sectors, and marginally accelerated body height growth
Fast track to growth? Railway access, population growth and local displacement in 19th century Switzerland
No full textWe study the effect of railway access on population growth in 19th century Switzerland. Our analysis is based on geo-referenced railway network information and an inconsequential units IV approach. Gaining direct railway access increased annual population growth by 0.4 percentage points, while municipalities in close vicinity but no direct access (i.e. 2–10 km distance) experienced a growth slump of similar magnitude. We interpret these findings as evidence of highly localised displacement effects related to railway connections
Does Proximity to Foreign Invested Firms Stimulate Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms? Firm-level Evidence from Vietnam
Get PDFMuch attention has been paid to foreign investment spillovers in the literature, since inward foreign direct investment is regarded as a key engine of industrial growth and technological progress. However, little clear evidence has been found with regard to the relevance of geographic proximity for spillover effects, owing to a lack of location specific information. We therefore study the spatial component of spillover effects from foreign direct investment on total factor productivity (TFP) of domestic manufacturing firms in Vietnam from 2005 to 2010. Firm level TFP is estimated by applying a semi-parametric method. We geo-reference firms by using the smallest administrative unit (ward) and compile a unique data set containing information of firms location to exploit the variation in the presence of foreign firms around each domestic firm over time. Benefiting from enhanced spatial accuracy over previous studies, our empirical results using a first differenced two-stage least squares estimator are threefold. First, they show positive local spillover effects of foreign investment on domestic firms in the same industry. The effects are strongest and highly significant within a radius of 2 km to 10 km, and they show a distinct decay pattern within 10-50 km. Second, small and unproductive firms benefit disproportionately from the presence of foreign firms in their neighborhoods. Third, manufacturing vertical spillovers are also localized while vertical spillovers from the service sector are less geographically restricted
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Kenya Settlement Schemes Data Project
No full textThis research project is conducted in partnership between Dr. Fibian Lukalo of Kenya’s National Land Commission, Prof. Catherine Boone of the London School of Economics (funded by UK Economic and Social Research Council Grant # ES/R005753/1 'Spatial Dynamics in African Political Economy' and Kenya NACOSTI Research Permits # NACOSTI/P/16/48539/13282 and /24668), and Professors Kimberley Browne and Sandra Joireman at the University of Richmond. The data and maps have been prepared for the purposes of academic and policy research. All boundaries are approximate; they are indicative only and are not intended to have legal standing or be used for official purposes.
Users outside the NLC should cite this work as Lukalo, Boone, Browne, and Joireman, "Kenya Settlement Schemes Data Project,” London, Nairobi, and Richmond: NCL, LSE, and UoR, 2019
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